Shifting Legal Visions - Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America

Informationen zum Autor Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, at the University of Oxford. He received his B.A. in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2005, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. González-Ocantos won the American Political Science Association's Edward S. Corwin Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and The International Journal of Human Rights. Klappentext An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America. Zusammenfassung Through an in-depth exploration of the interactions between judges! prosecutors and lawyers in three Latin American countries! Shifting Legal Visions asks how changing ideas about the law condition the outcome of human rights trials and the exercise of judicial power more broadly. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From unresponsive to responsive judiciaries; 2. Legal preferences and strategic litigation: a theory of judicial change; 3. Argentina: pedagogical interventions and replacement strategies in the struggle for human rights; 4. Peru: pedagogical interventions and human rights trials in unfriendly territory; 5. Mexico: an untamed judiciary and the failure of criminal prosecutions; 6. Comparative perspectives on the problem of legal preferences.

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• Authors: Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. (University of Oxfor Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. (University of Oxford) Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781316508800
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50880-0
• No. of pages: 341
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law